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  • Wheat phenotyping workshop

    The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) extends a cordial invitation to participate in the training workshop "Wheat phenotyping for the identification of germplasm with high yield potential and tolerance to drought and heat". This will be held in CIMMYT HQ, Texcoco, State of Mexico, on September 28th, 2018 (from 9:00 – 14:00 hrs) as part of the II Plant Breeding Symposium México 2018 (https://trasmejoragen.wixsite.com/inicio) The objective of this workshop is to train participants in the phenotypic characterization of wheat germplasm. Research themes include: climate change; priority characteristics for wheat for Mexico; phenotyping of genetically diverse materials and in the ...

  • II Plant Breeding Symposium Mexico 2018

    MasAgro Biodiversity announces the II Plant Breeding Symposium Mexico 2018 which will be held on September 6 and 7, 2018 at the CIMMYT HQ, Texcoco. Mexico. This event belongs to the series of DuPont Plant Sciences Symposia. For more information please visit the website:https://trasmejoragen.wixsite.com/inicio

  • New video: Crop biodiversity for healthy, nutritious livelihoods

    Erratic weather, poor soil health, and resource shortages keep millions of maize and wheat farmers in developing countries from growing enough to feed their households and communities or to harvest a surplus to sell.

  • 3rd KDSmart app workshop

    The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) extends a cordial invitation to participate in the training workshop on the use of the KDSmart app. This will be held in Texcoco, State of Mexico, on December 20, 2017 (from 9:00 - 17:00 hrs).

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Catalogue

PRODUCTS CATALOGUE

PRODUCTS CATALOGUE

MasAgro Biodiversity, a component of the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro) program, focuses on the utilization and conservation of valuable genetic resources with genetic diversity protected in germplasm banks. This program has the purpose of accelerating the development of Varieties of maize and wheat that can meet the nutrition and nutritional demands of a growing population, facing the challenges of climate change.

By characterizing the genetic configuration of CIMMYT germplasm bank collections, the evaluation of priority characteristics – such as drought tolerance, high temperatures and some diseases – and the development of bioinformatics tools that streamline its analysis, MasAgro Biodiversity has Generated a “platform for the utilization of genetic resources” of maize and wheat.

This platform puts several products at the disposal of the scientific community. MasAgro Biodiversity also offers some services in order to promote equity in access and benefits of the use of maize and wheat diversity.

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  • Wheat Genotypic Datasets


    The Seeds of Discovery project has generated several types of genotypic data describing wheat germplasm, including accessions from CIMMYT’s germplasm bank (CGB) and pre-breeding materials generated from CGB materials. Data types include Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), Presence/Absence Variations (PAVs), and allele frequencies for thousands of markers. These data are released as a small number of key “datasets” for targeted subsets of germplasm and/or markers.

    Product details and features

    In general, very high-density genotypic data (with more than one million markers per sample) are released through Dataverse, whereas allele frequency and lower density SNP call datasets are typically released through Germinate.

    Dataverse Genotypic Datasets:

    1. A list of genotypic datasets available for download in the Dataverse repository provides links to individual studies.Link
    2. Studies contain fixed data files including the genotypic results file(s), and supporting files such as mapping files to link DNA sample names to germplasm identifiers, protocols for extraction or analysis, or other relevant documents.
    3. Each study is annotated with standard study-level metadata including: study title, description, authors, data generators, date of generation, keywords, links to related studies, links to relevant journal articles.

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  • Germinate Genotypic Datasets:

    1. Users must first login to Germinate, after registering free of charge and agreeing to the terms of the data sharing license.Link
    2. Users can then generate “Groups” of germplasm or markers of interest using one or more search or filtering tools and use them immediately to generate customized subsets of data and/or save them for future use
    3. SNP genotypic datasets in the Germinate data warehouse are available for direct download in a simple matrix format
    4. SNP genotypic datasets in the Germinate data warehouse are available for direct download in a simple matrix format
    5. Users can then download the selected genotypic data in a plain text format or as a “Project” immediately available for viewing in the Flapjack software.

    Comments

    Some of the genotypic datasets, especially the very high-density data available in Dataverse, are very large. Long periods of time may be required to download them, particularly for people who have limited internet connectivity. Data can be provided in alternative ways if direct download from the internet is not possible. The large file sizes may also make it hard or impossible to work with them on computers with limited memory or using applications, such as Excel, that do not support extremely large files. Please contact Cimmyt-mab-seed@cgiar.org for additional help with accessing or working with any of these genotypic data files.

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  • Availability

    Genotypic Datasets in Dataverse: https://data.cimmyt.org/dataverse/seedsofdiscoverydvn?q=keywordValue%3Awheat

    Allele Frequency Genotypic Datasets in Germinate : http://germinate.cimmyt.org/wheat/#genotype-datasets
    SNP Datasets in Germinate: Available in November 2017.

    Molecular Maps in Germinate (http://germinate.cimmyt.org/wheat/#map-details)


    Primary Users

    Researchers and students working in relevant fields such as biology, breeding, and bioinformatics, as well as wheat pre-breeders, molecular breeders, germplasm bank curators, and users of CIMMYT wheat germplasm bank materials

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RESEARCH PORTFOLIO

RESEARCH PORTFOLIO

Genetic resources

Genetic resources

Capacity

Capacity

Data

Data

Pre-breeding Germplasm

Pre-breeding Germplasm

Knowledge

Knowledge

Software

Software

PHILOSOPHY OF OUR APPROACH

PHILOSOPHY OF OUR APPROACH

So many accessions, so few data!

Many genebanks resemble libraries that lack sufficiently informative catalogs. The advent of next-generation DNA-sequencing platforms has made it possible to characterize the genetic diversity conserved in entire genebanks.

Information management

Generating new data by itself is insufficient if it cannot be effectively disseminated, queried, summarized, visualized, and analyzed. Data generation, therefore, has to go hand-in-hand with providing intuitive software and analysis tools to deal with the rapidly expanding datasets describing maize and wheat genetic resources.

Pre-breeding

A ‘reformatting’ of the diversity in genebanks into a more breeder-ready format could lower the barriers to mobilize novel genetic variation into breeding programs, which in good part are due to the dependency of gene effects on genetic backgrounds.

Traits with complex genetic architecture

Some of the most important challenges to agriculture need to be addressed by manipulating genetically complex characters controlled by small-effect alleles (yield potential, heat and drought tolerance, etc.).

Collecting germplasm.

The availability of sufficient numbers of genebank accessions does not appear to be a factor limiting the use of novel genetic variation in breeding programs, and a new initiative will secure the global network of genebanks of humanity’s major food crops for future generations.